Medical sociology books

This book explores the moral and representational issues associated with engaging young people with popular media...  Read More >>

This innovative book offers new empirical research and policy-relevant care practices from across the globe to understand...  Read More >>

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This book explores how person-centred health care could be refined to help persons alleviate pain-related distress...  Read More >>

This book critically analyses how politics and power affect the ways that medicine is taught and learned.  Read More >>

Drawing on the knowledge and experiences of world-renowned scientists and healthcare professionals, this important...  Read More >>

This book is a critical response to a range of problems, some theoretical, others empirical, that shape questions...  Read More >>

‘Empowerment’ is a term in widespread use today and one that is often considered to be a self-evident good. Here,...  Read More >>

Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions. During a crisis, however, global health...  Read More >>

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Significant debate exists about the possible solutions for nearly all of the most important global health challenges...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing...  Read More >>

Mobilizing Knowledge in Physiotherapy: Critical Reflections on Foundations and Practices is a collection of 15 collaboratively...  Read More >>

Reconsidering Dementia Narratives explores the role of narrative in developing new ways of understanding, interacting...  Read More >>

This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity...  Read More >>

This innovative volume exposes dementia as a condition that the aging prison population is increasingly facing....  Read More >>

This book offers new perspectives on the conceptualisation of breastfeeding as a shared process.  Read More >>

In Concept Analysis in Nursing: A New Approach, Paley provides a critical analysis of the philosophical assumptions...  Read More >>

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Based on a study of the London Borough of Newham, this book aims to show how the selective licensing tool available...  Read More >>

This book examines the intersectionality and stratified lived experience of rural poor and urban middle-class childless...  Read More >>

Attention and Responsibility in Global Health shows the construction of health through what is neglected and how...  Read More >>

Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social...  Read More >>

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of...  Read More >>